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Matthew 4:1-11 New International Version (NIV) Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness 4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[ a ] by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’[ b ]” 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’[ c ]” 7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[ d ]” 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendo...

Living for Jesus is just like this blog, Only By Grace, an online journal of my personal journey and walk with the Lord. The only difference is that this one has just started and Living for Jesus is a record of my walk in the Lord in 2013 while I was in South Korea.  Somehow, it is good to reminisce your past. You will gain insights that you have never seen before. It is good to write down your thoughts on what is happening around you at present. They will serve as insightful reference for you in the future. I am surprised for instance that I wrote something about fasting in 2013. Even the list that I came up with to fast from, I find it really surprising. There I included in the list things like lust, social media, computer, her, my kids, study, reading, research, and even blogging just like what I am doing now.   As I review other articles in that blog, my mind is drawn to the past. I remember that Resurrection Sunday on 31 March 2013 where I wrote down that I was on m...

Financial Literacy is my 8th blog. I am able to revisit eleven articles that I published in this blog. The topic I covered include the following: cash flow quadrant, leverage, the rat race, cash flow, relationship between life and thoughts, power of financial literacy, work to learn, 17 practical steps to awaken your financial genius, financial habit, and two book reviews. These topics will provide a good start in a course on financial literacy. 

After watching last night in YouTube,  An Evening of Eschatology , I became more convinced that the victory of Christ and His Church is certain not only in the life to come or in eternity, but in human history. When I first read a book on eschatology by J. Marcelus Kik, I thought that my initial postmillennial conviction would just be transitory to Amillennialism. However, after 34 years, I remain a convinced postmillennialist despite what happened in my life and what has been happening around the world. If I would allow my own life journey to determine my eschatology, I think I would prefer a view of the last things that is darker and more frightening. Of course, none of the two alternative schools of thought would say that theirs is a dark and a frightening eschatology. They still see Christ and the people of God as victorious. The only difference in the way I see it is their view of human history. It seems to me that the alternative schools of thought paint a very negative conc...

Revelation 1:1-8   English Standard Version (ESV) Prologue 1  The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God  gave him  to show to his servants [ a ]  the things that must soon take place.  He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,   2  who bore witness to the word of God and to  the testimony of Jesus Christ, even  to all that he saw.   3  Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it,  for the time is near. Greeting to the Seven Churches 4  John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from  him  who is and  who was and who is to come, and from  the seven spirits who are before his throne,   5  and from Jesus Christ  the faithful witness,  the firstborn of the dead, and  the ruler of kings on earth. To  him who loves us and  has freed us from our...